A Wizard of Earthsea

, #1

Buckram, 206 pages

English language

Published 2015 by Folio Society.

5 stars (3 reviews)

A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.

65 editions

Very enjoyable but of its time

4 stars

I did really enjoy reading this, and will almost certainly go on to read the other Earthsea books.

I came to Earthsea after reading several of Le Guin's Hainish cycle books and short stories, including some of the earliest ones like Rocannon's World. I can see similarities with the earliest Hainish cycle works, from around the same time - an emphasis on male characters, for example - which I am sure would have been handled differently by the same author had she written them later on. But there are still a lot of great ideas here, and it is far more open-minded than most fantasy literature of its era.

Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Magic
  • Magic in fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Wizards
  • Wizards in fiction
  • Bk. 1.
  • Earthsea (Le Guin, Ursula K.)
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Children's fiction
  • Magic, fiction
  • Science fiction
  • Fantasy fiction
  • Fiction, fantasy, general
  • Margaret A. Edwards Award
  • Earthsea (Imaginary place)
  • Fantastic fiction
  • Ged (fictitious character), fiction